[Marble-devel] Using router.project-osrm.org http API in Marble

[Project OSRM]

Hi Dennis,
hi marble devs,

> (CC to the marble developer mailing list)
> 
> thanks for your work on OSRM and making it available in an open way.

You are most welcome.

> I'm working on an OSRM plugin for Marble [1], a Virtual Globe and
> World Atlas. The plugin uses the OSRM http API to retrieve routes
> from router.project-osrm.org. Calls to the API are triggered by
> Marble users when planning a route and in real-time navigation mode
> when leaving the originally planned route and a new one has to be
> calculated.

Very cool feature. I am really happy to see this integrated.

> OSRM is mentioned as the source of the route and a license
> attribution [2] is added in our data section. Please check that it is
> appropriate, I didn't find license details on your website, so I
> assumed it is the same as OpenStreetMap.

Indeed, the data is the same license as OSM. Please note that this will
change to ODBL when OpenStreetMap makes the switch.

> API queries executed by the plugin can be identified based on the 
> following user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Marble/0.13.20
> (PRE 0.14 GIT); Browser; OSRMRunner) This string is static except for
> the version number, here "0.13.20 (PRE 0.14 GIT)". Coordinate hinting
> is done and the polyline algorithm format requested, i.e. the plugin
> follows the API usage policy [3].

Perfect.

> The plugin is available in Marble's git master branch (see [4] for
> the relevant commits) and I'd like to ship it with the next stable
> release (in time with KDE 4.9, scheduled for August 1st, 2012).

Looking forward to August to see more users using OSRM. By that time we
will most probably have operations expanded to serving the entire planet.

> Please get back to me (preferably keeping our mailing list on CC) or
> follow up in the bug report [4] if you have any questions or
> comments.

Will follow up on the bug at the bug tracker.


--Dennis

> [1] http://edu.kde.org/marble [2]
> 
> Open Source Routing Machine Some of the routes used in Marble via
> download are provided by the Open Source Routing Machine
> <http://project-osrm.org> Project ("OSRM"). License: Open Source
> Routing Machine data can be used freely under the terms of the
> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap_License>. [3]
> https://github.com/DennisOSRM/Project-OSRM/wiki/API%20Usage%20Policy 
> [4] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297774
> 
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